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The Power of EDI
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) can be a powerful tool in today's health care industry. Used properly to submit claims electronically, it saves hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars for health care insurers. And, it's interactive capabilities improve and support an insurer's communications with providers.
Does Blue Cross and Blue Shield understand this power? It appears many plans do. Each year, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans across the nation gather over 500 million electronic claims -- significantly more than the combined total of all our competitors.
In addition, the federal government has identified EDI as a potential cost-savings initiative. They estimate that electronic claim submission can save the national health care system over $40,000,000,000 (billion) per year.
Keeping Pace with the Power
The only thing that's moving faster than EDI itself, is the technology and the marketing that goes into it. To keep pace with the power and reap the benfits of EDI, your technology has to be top-notch and you have to be able to reach your market.
That's where the National Plan Automation Group comes in. Its conferences address how to reduce administrative costs and how to meet the automation explosion taking place in the industry.
An open forum for learning and information exchange
NPAG provides a forum for the exchange of questions and answers about all apsects of EDI. It's objective is to bring people together to share knowledge, mistakes and successes.
The NPAG meets in the fall at different locations, with member plans as hosts. The conferences are serious business opportunities, offering NPAG members a chance to:
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gather information and share details of their successes and failures with EDI. |
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network with people of other plans, giving them future contacts for sharing information and ideas. |
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learn from current technology, trends and marketing strides, from experts within and outside of the Blues. |
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participate in and share the benefits of the annual survey. |
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identify Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans with similar EDI networks; again giving future contacts for sharing information and ideas. |
The NPAG Mission
Provide strategic value to all Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans to meet the challenges of electronic commerce for administrative and clinical information exchange with providers to control the cost and improve the quality of health care by acting as a focal point for education and information exchange and by providing leadership, support, direction, and information to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
The NPAG Vision
Electronic Commerce becomes the primary method of business exchange available to...and valued by...Plan customers.
NPAG announces it's virtual "Plan Share" collaboration site. WWW.NPAG.BIZ
Visit the site to see what others are saying about industry issues. You can
exchange ideas with industry leaders, post a blog, poll, or survey. Expand
your network of EDI resources, get feedback and collaborate on the tough
decisions EDI experts make every day.
Registration is quick and membership is free. Sign up today.
Just another way NPAG helps its members "Harvest the Rewards of EDI"
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